An intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) is a reusable industrial container used for the transport and storage of oil, chemicals, food/beverages, solvents, pharmaceuticals and other liquids. IBC's are made of polypropylene, encased within a mental cage and fixed to a wooden or metal pallet suitable for transportation by forklift, the most popular size is 1000L capacity. IBC's currently account for approx. 15% of the global packaging market; due to the high operational performance and cost efficiency the annual growth rate is around...Read More

Cat Pumps (UK) Limited has spent the last 2 years developing their Wash-Saver product for the food and beverage market so were pleasantly surprised to receive an enquiry from one of our existing customers in the Oil and Gas sector.
The company operates globally from its head office in Aberdeen, Scotland, and operates four drill ships for ultra-deep water and three mid water drilling rigs. One of the drill ships had been using a Nilfisk Alto unit to provide high pressure water to wash down the ships equipment and was coming across the all too common issues. Read More

The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) is one of the world's leading providers of health and safety solutions to industry, government and professional bodies.
The main focus of HSL’s work is on understanding and reducing health and safety risks. The HSL offer health and safety research, expert advice and consultancy, specialist training and products.
When the HSL wanted a hydrostatic pressure testing unit they came to Cat Pumps for the solution, Alan McDonald of the HSL explains.. Read more

The food production and processing chain provides numerous opportunities for Cat Pumps to demonstrate the benefits that triplex positive displacement plunger pumps provide in terms of high pressures at low flows, mist creation, variable speeds, variable flows and reliability. In the poultry production business our pumps have a role to play even before the chicks have hatched.
The commercial hatching of chicks is a huge international industry that involves incubation equipment, ventilation heat recovery and energy management systems. Read more

Britain’s almost-forgotten coal seams are getting a wake-up call as engineers develop methods to realise the potential of coal-bed methane (CBM), the naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas that is trapped in the carbon structure of coal. At Doe Green near Warrington on the north bank of the River Mersey, Nexen Exploration UK Limited is now running a pilot production CBM extraction plant which is providing sufficient high quality gas to generate 0.5 megawatts of electricity (Fig. 1). Such is the quality of the gas and the potential resources available, further commercial exploitation is a distinct possibility. Read more

One of the more challenging applications to which we have successfully applied our products is for pumping liquid carbon dioxide (CO2). Being a liquefied gas, it must be transferred at a controlled combination of low temperature and high pressure to minimise vapour formation, whilst its inherent compressibility and low lubricity places special demands on pump design. The applications for CO2 are many and varied, encompassing nuclear power generation, recirculation in commercial refrigeration plant, use as a blowing agent in foam-making processes and the extraction of essential oils from plant materials. Read more

One particularly arduous application where Cat Pumps triplex PD pumps have proved themselves superior to other pumps is in the production of asphalt road surfacing material. The process requires crushed stone to be heated prior to mixing with fine filler materials and then coating with hot bitumen and the role of the asphalt burner pump is to provide a constant supply of fuel into the burner injection system. Oil is pumped under pressure through a jet and ignited inside the rotating drum to heat and dry the graded stone. Operating conditions are harsh with the pumps often expected to run continuously for up to 10 hours. Read more

The redevelopment of the Bairds Malt Arbroath in recent months malting has provided us with the opportunity to continue our supply of triplex positive displacement plunger pumps into the maltings market.
Bairds Malt operates five malting sites across the UK, stretching from Inverness in the Scottish Highlands to Witham in Essex. The Arbroath maltings opened in1970 specifically to supply the local distilling industry. Today, Bairds’ total annual production capacity is more than 250,000 tonnes. Read More

Humbly Grove onshore oilfield in Hampshire, England has been producing oil for over 30 years, at a daily production output of between 200 and 400 barrels. Its owners, Star Energy, are now also using the ready-made infrastructure for storing natural gas in some of the former oil reservoirs.The Humbly Grove field contains a number of oil wells which feed into Star Energy’s recovery plant at Lasham and it is here that the extracted oil and water are separated, with the oil being transferred by pipeline for onward transportation by rail for processing at Fawley on the South Coast. After... Read more

We are proud to have been selected to supply high pressure pumps for an ambitious scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from Lake Ellsworth, some 3 km beneath Antarctica. Cat Pumps positive displacement pumps will feed high pressure hot water as part of an innovative borehole drilling system operating under arduous conditions.The British Antarctic Survey’s Lake Ellsworth Programme, which has been in planning for almost 15 years and which you may have read about recently in the media, will start drilling in December 2012 and over a period of .. Read more

The global pump market is dominated by the roto-dynamic principle, mainly centrifugal pump, so it is not unusual for system designers and equipment specifiers to take this as their default choice when considering pumps for specific applications. However, roto-dynamic pumps have limitations in respect of the pressure they can generate and their overall operating efficiency, factors that can influence life cycle costs. It is issues such as these that make the Triplex Positive Displacement (PD) pump an attractive alternative for high pressure duties.There can be no doubt that if the most appropriate type of pump is selected for. Read more

Promethean Particles, Nottingham is stepping up its nanoparticle manufacturing capabilities from pilot-scale production offering only kg quantities of materials up to a 100 tonne-per-year plant. This is to be achieved through the development of a reactor plant using high-pressure triplex plunger pumps from Cat Pumps. Promethean Particles has already demonstrated the scale-up potential of the technology with its pilot scale reactor system which has successfully manufactured nanomaterials continuously for 60 hours. A spin-off from the University of Nottingham, Promethean Particles produces nanoparticles using continuous hydrothermal.. Read more

The demands of a centralised wash-down systems vary significantly depending upon the type of industry and application. Cat Pumps leaders in high pressure pumping systems used their extensive experience in this field to design a bespoke Wash-Saver, a multi-gun wash-down system that automatically matches supply with demand, for a leading player in the fish processing market. This fish processor called upon the expertise of Cat Pumps partner/distributor Axflow to carry out an initial site assessment and to offer a solution. Mark Redgrove of Axflow carried out the survey and found the current wash-down system had been utilising pitot-tube pumps...Read more